I would get annoyed too if I used Siri that much. I don't think there is a "turn off snarky remarks" option.
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Any way to TURN OFF Siri's STUPID comments?
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Your holding her wrong.
Seriously, turn her off and don't be so damn lazy. Now if you will excuse me I have to rebury this damn body bag.
lmao..... don't forget to close the docking bay doors.
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OP, Siri is like a gorgeous woman, you have to sweet talk her.
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Sorry, but they gave it a personality. Most people enjoy it but I see how that could be become annoying- especially if they upped the frequency.
Control center to the rescue. Swipe up and set the timer.
If only there was a personality strength slider - the robots in Interstellar were controllable like that!
Lighten up Francis
Reading this made my day. By the way am I the only one who got this? I need to stay off YouTube for a while.
Like a slider where the personality and sense of humour level could be set to match the user too lol
I use the timer almost every day, but I haven't gotten the snarky comments yet. It's always, "Ok, I've set it to...whatever time I set it to." Or "I'll turn it on for you...at whatever time I set it to."
No funny or otherwise extraneous comments have been spoken by Siri to me yet. Maybe I'll just ask Siri to tell me some jokes next time.
I guess I don't see the problem. Just either set manually or hit the home key really fast so you don't hear her "humorous" commentary.
I wish mine did add more personality to her comments. Maybe mine is just shy.
No funny or otherwise extraneous comments have been spoken by Siri to me yet. Maybe I'll just ask Siri to tell me some jokes next time.
I guess I don't see the problem. Just either set manually or hit the home key really fast so you don't hear her "humorous" commentary.
I wish mine did add more personality to her comments. Maybe mine is just shy.
I have to admit, I'd like an option to turn the "added comments" off.
However, people on MacRumors are too emotionally invested in Apple and I knew it would evoke the responses you are experiencing.
Couldn't be bothered with the b******t responses, so I left it.
However, not being able to correctly decipher between 15 & 50 is a bit of an issue which I regularly encounter.
I wonder if Apple will actually allow us to disable the "humour" at some point?
Failing that, add some more "jokes" to the mix as it's boring hearing the same "jokes" over & over again ...
However, people on MacRumors are too emotionally invested in Apple and I knew it would evoke the responses you are experiencing.
Couldn't be bothered with the b******t responses, so I left it.
However, not being able to correctly decipher between 15 & 50 is a bit of an issue which I regularly encounter.
I wonder if Apple will actually allow us to disable the "humour" at some point?
Failing that, add some more "jokes" to the mix as it's boring hearing the same "jokes" over & over again ...
I did!
How about "it also has an unfortunate tendency to giggle"?
Who thought of that reading this thread?
If She can't distinguish between 60 or sixteen why not say an hour or quarter of an hour? Just a thought.
So disable the otherwise useful feature because along with doing useful things it provides extraneous commentary? One of those "cut off the nose to spite the face" type of things it would seem.
Exactly. Siri is a personal assistant and conversational software.
Once you turn it off, you go back to voice control. Which does everything you want instantly.
It supports all or even most of the things that Siri can do and that many people use Siri for?
Pretty much . You want to set a timer, it does it.
But if you don't want Siri to talk to you and you don't want answers from it, use voice control.
Sure, no talking back, but I still don't think it does everything or perhaps even quite a few things that Siri does that various people use and need from Siri. Perhaps you can set a timer, and if that's mostly what you need along with a few other similar things, it can work, but if you also use Siri for many other things, the question is whether or not voice control can do them all, and most likely it can't (otherwise voice control would be Siri basically).
The person wants to turn off comments made by Siri when they ask it to do something. Just use voice control. Lol
What is it that voice control can't do that Siri can?
That's what I'm wondering. If voice control could do anything that Siri can then there wouldn't be a difference between them and one would be the other basically, therefore there must be a difference and thus there must be things that voice control can't do that Siri can. Based on that, it might not be a viable option for at least some to simply disable Siri and use voice control just to avoid extraneous comments (at the cost of giving up some functionality that they need or want to use that only Siri can provide).
Voice command can make calls, play music, or tell you the time. It can't do things like find information on the internet or find a movie time or a local restaraunt.
It's actually supposed to be talking and asking you questions at that point.
When I ask the temperature Siri can add in that I'll need a coat or what it's thinking.
What kind of experience is the op looking for?
It's supposed to know things. And a Siri that doesn't say anything is not the Siri that people want.
And that can read your messages or send messages or set up reminders or make calls or start timers or use various other features in the phone?
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Siri should say extraneous things when it makes sense (like to answer a question like "what's the weather like today?") and not when it's simply told a command to do something (like start a timer).
I give Apple a lot of credit for being so clever. Knowing how young boys get such a thrill farting and hearing their friends fart, they approved loads of fart apps for the iPhone early in its history. This made Apple extremely popular.
Then in a stroke of genius Apple created Siri to amuse, entertain, and also be functional. The adults fell for this, are captivated with "her"... Apple brags, looks like the smartest company ever, which is quite true.
Their years of superb marketing, combined with a little Barnum and Bailey smoke and mirrors entertainment, and here we are, Apple has everyone captivated.
With a massive amount of cash and Pro Apple press, they're unstoppable.